Yesterday Is Where I Belonged Poem by Prem Narayan Nath

Yesterday was where I belonged to
Yesterday I'd been in the ration shops queue
Yesterday I was a pedestrian of the pavement
yesterday I exchanged with many a mate
News reports of misfortune

Yesterday the night came drenched in rain
Yesterday I thought I'd uproot
the subterranean lands of darkness

Yesterday I saw thunder lightning
clustered in clouds
Yesterday thousands of springs settled
On the unsullied bosom of flowers

Yesterday I saw the soothing charm of an innocent morn
the afternoon's inertness after traversing the sun's adolescence
The speechless evening a grave after the tumult

Yesterday I opened my wings
after a melodic dream
Yesterday my body was ablaze
incessent burning of hunger
flames blue and red

Yesterday a new day that came
after cremating that sun
merged into my age
Yesterday I embraced as my own
dreams brimming in my heart
in tears brimming in my heart
Yesterday I saw the evening inebriated
Yesterday I saw the saliva of greed spilling out
From the mouth of an old yellow toothed tiger
Yesterday I saw rocks splitting
From the body of a massive hill
Yesterday the woes of existence flowed
As a Ganges of the nether-world
yesterday I hadn't any life in me to let the flow on
and now I languish on the cemetery by the Kolong